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Dr Catherine Weetman

Key themes – Main Group Chemistry, Homogeneous Catalysis, Rare Earth Elements, Sustainability, Synthetic Chemistry, Structure and Bonding Relationships, Small Molecule Activation, Density Functional Theory.

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2020 to Present

University of Strathclyde, Scotland

Chancellor's Fellow and Lecturer

Catalysis & Synthesis, Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry. 

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2018-2020

TU Munich, Germany
EPFL, Switzerland

EuroTech Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship
Aluminium Multiple Bonds with Prof. Shigeyoshi Inoue (TUM) and a 6 month secondment with Prof. Marinella Mazzanti (EPFL)

2017-2018

TU Munich, Germany

TU Munich Foundation Fellow (TUFF)

Lewis base stabilised Aluminium Complexes for Small Molecule Activation and Catalysis with Prof. Shigeyoshi Inoue.

2015-2017
 

University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Postdoctoral Research Associate

d- and f-block organometallics with Prof. Polly Arnold and Prof. Jason Love. 

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2011-2015

University of Bath, England

PhD

Magnesium Hydride Reductions with Prof. Michael Hill.

2007-2011

University of Bath, England

MChem Chemistry with Year in Industry

Final year research project ‘Group 2 mediated formation of dihydropyridides and their subsequent reactions’ with Prof. Michael Hill
Industrial training undertaken at Sasol Technology UK ‘Catalyst design for selective ethylene tetramerisation’

Funding and Awards

EPRSC New Investigator

2024-2027
Developing a Future Green Economy through Aluminium Bimetallics

RSC Enablement Grant

04/2023 to 03/2024
Developing Facile Reductive Elimination at Main Group Centres for Sustainable Catalysis

ScotCHEM Emerging Researcher

05/2022 to 07/2022

To host PhD Student from CvO University Oldenburg – Project ‘Synthesis and Catalytic Application of Three-Membered Ring Systems containing a Group 14 Element and an Aluminium-Aluminium Double Bond’

Lower Saxony-Scotland Tandem Fellowship

12/2021 to 11/2022

To set up a new collaboration with Dr Lena Albers, CvO University Oldenburg – Project ‘Synthesis of new Heteroalkenes containing Group 14 and Group 2 elements and their application as catalysts

Best Oral Presentation - RSC Main Group Interest Group Meeting

09/2019

 ‘Aluminium Multiple Bonds’

EuroTech Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA)

12/2018 to 06/2020

​To conduct research at TU Munich and a 6-month secondment in EPFL – Project ‘Aluminium Multiple Bonds’

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